About four years ago she arrived . . . and has been lifting into place this huge structure sometimes described as one of the largest current civil engineering project in the country. Her original name Left Coast Lifter , a ZPMC product, stuck despite attempts at New Yorkizing it, renaming it I Lift NY or Ichabod Crane.

I saw the size of those blocks recently when I drove across the new bridge for the first time, but being alone in the car . . . obviously, no pics.

But thankfully, the crane does more than just drop lower the sections for scrap, and I’m often not so thrilled by state or federal decisions, but here’s a good one: sections of the old bridge will be used to replace compromised infrastructure in the Hudson Valley. Here’s a story.

And the rest of these photos, thanks to Glenn Raymo, show these sections on their way to re-use, signs and all.

The work on the first US offshore wind farm is becoming visible from Block Island, these taken from Monhegan Bluffs.

There is one . . .

no . . two

actually five bases emerging from the waters,

each in a different state of completion.

Here Stephanie Dann tows a barge with three further elaborations of bases. A barge passed through the sixth boro two months ago, as shown here.

Here’s a vessel I’d like to see close up . . . L/B Robert. Each of those legs is 335′ long, allowing it to place them on the ocean floor in water as deep as 280 feet. Click here for more info on the self-propelled L/B Robert.

Click here for more ongoing news about the project from the Block Island Times.